Direct Power Control of three phase PWM rectifier using Model Predictive Control and SVM switching

This paper presents a new method to control three phase PWM rectifiers. The method is a kind of Direct Power Control (DPC) which is based on Model Predictive Control (MPC). This method uses voltage vector of the supply network as the base vector of control process and does not apply any kind of hysteresis or PI controller in the control loops of active and reactive powers. There is no complexity in the method and also there is no restriction to indicating the required average voltage vector of the convertor at the beginning of each switching period. This method is tested by simulation studies on a three phase PWM rectifier, using MATLAB/SIMULINK tools.